Most Famous Russian Writers
Russia has produced 314 notable writers throughout history, led by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Rankings are drawn from a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.
Category All
Citizenship All
FD
Fyodor Dostoevsky Russian Novelist 1821 – 1881
#
85
LT
Leo Tolstoy Russian Writer 1828 – 1910
#
92
AC
Anton Chekhov Russian Playwright 1860 – 1904
#
130
AS
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Writer 1918 – 2008
#
517
NG
Nikolai Gogol Russian Novelist 1809 – 1852
#
762
MB
Mikhail Bulgakov Russian Novelist 1891 – 1940
#
797
MG
Maxim Gorky Russian Writer 1868 – 1936
#
828
AA
Anna Akhmatova Russian Writer 1889 – 1966
#
1,259
IB
Ivan Bunin Russian Writer 1870 – 1953
#
1,301
IT
Ivan Turgenev Russian Writer 1818 – 1883
#
1,302
MS
Mikhail Sholokhov Russian Writer 1905 – 1984
#
2,391
CA
Chinghiz Aitmatov Russian Author 1928 – 2008
#
3,211
AN
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy Russian Playwright 1883 – 1945
#
3,958
NC
Nikolay Chernyshevsky Russian Novelist 1828 – 1889
#
4,044
FT
Fyodor Tyutchev Russian Writer 1803 – 1873
#
4,456
SA
Sholem Aleichem Russian Playwright 1859 – 1916
#
4,773
MS
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin Russian Writer 1826 – 1889
#
4,976
AK
Aleksandr Kuprin Russian Writer 1870 – 1938
#
5,390
NL
Nikolai Leskov Russian Writer 1831 – 1895
#
5,622
NK
Nikolay Karamzin Russian Writer 1766 – 1826
#
6,189